Die sieben Raben - The Seven Ravens,
by Hilde Langen, 1939
Purchase the book here
'The Seven Ravens' is a German fairy tale
collected by the Brothers Grimm. This tale, like
The Twelve Brothers, The Six Swans, and
Brother and Sister, features a woman
rescuing her brothers.
A peasant has seven sons and no daughter.
Finally a daughter is born, but is sickly. The father sends
his sons to fetch water for her to be baptized. In their haste,
they drop the jug in the well. When they did not return, their father
thinks that they had had gone off to play and curses them and so they
turn into ravens. When the sister was grown, she sets out in search of
her brothers. She attempts to get help first from the sun, then the
moon and then the morning star. The star helps her by giving her
a chicken bone and tells her she will need it to save her brothers.
She finds them on the Glass Mountain but she has lost the
bone, and chops off a finger to use as a key. She goes into
the mountain, where a dwaf tells her that her brothers
will return. She takes some of their food and drink
and leaves in the last cup a ring from home.
When her brothers return, she hides. They
turn back into human form and ask who
has been at their food. The youngest
brother finds the ring, and hopes
it is their sister, in which case
they are saved. She emerges,
and they return home
and happy ever after
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by Hilde Langen, 1939
Purchase the book here
'The Seven Ravens' is a German fairy tale
collected by the Brothers Grimm. This tale, like
The Twelve Brothers, The Six Swans, and
Brother and Sister, features a woman
rescuing her brothers.
A peasant has seven sons and no daughter.
Finally a daughter is born, but is sickly. The father sends
his sons to fetch water for her to be baptized. In their haste,
they drop the jug in the well. When they did not return, their father
thinks that they had had gone off to play and curses them and so they
turn into ravens. When the sister was grown, she sets out in search of
her brothers. She attempts to get help first from the sun, then the
moon and then the morning star. The star helps her by giving her
a chicken bone and tells her she will need it to save her brothers.
She finds them on the Glass Mountain but she has lost the
bone, and chops off a finger to use as a key. She goes into
the mountain, where a dwaf tells her that her brothers
will return. She takes some of their food and drink
and leaves in the last cup a ring from home.
When her brothers return, she hides. They
turn back into human form and ask who
has been at their food. The youngest
brother finds the ring, and hopes
it is their sister, in which case
they are saved. She emerges,
and they return home
and happy ever after
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2 comments:
Happily ever after but without a finger! :)
Yes ;O) Happily ever after...if life was always like that...that would be great; no wonder we love fairy tales!
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